The Night Before My Wedding, My Parents Cut My Wedding

never the absence of pain. It was the decision to keep your honor when people who should have protected you tried to take your joy. I promise I will never ask you to become smaller so I can feel taller. I promise I will stand beside the woman you are, not the woman anyone else tried to make you.”

My throat closes.

The room blurs.

When it is my turn, I continue reading …